12.24.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Links Xmas Eve: Red Hat Leaps, Garmin Picks Android
GNU/Linux
- Red Hat Profit Rises on Sales to Budget-Minded Buyers
- Free software Operating System for engineering students
- Linux Isn’t Just Good Ideology — It’s Better Computing
There’s no way around it: the longer you run a Windows installation, the slower and less responsive it gets. On my year-old dual-boot laptop, I wait longer and longer for Windows to boot, and longer and longer for programs to do what I ask. Meanwhile, my Ubuntu Linux installation, on exactly the same hardware, installed almost as long ago, is as snappy as the day I set it up— faster, in fact, as I’ve tweaked it and geeked it.
- Humor: Clean up your computer
- Open source software cheaper option for government bodies
Linux Professional Association on Kenya, a group of local software developers, has embarked on a sensitisation programme among government bodies with the aim of wooing them to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
- The innovations of Linux 2.6.28
- Report: The Amazon UK Mp3 Store On Linux… Actually a postive experience :O
- The Win, Fail and Meh of Open Source in 2008
-
64-Bit
- 64-Bit Computing Has Finally Arrived
Linux has been 64-bit for eight years, and Apple’s operating system for five. But compatibility problems have dogged the 64-bit versions of Windows since its introduction in Windows XP.
- Hotrod Your Asus Laptop With 64-bit Kubuntu
- 64-Bit Computing Has Finally Arrived
-
Linux Magazine
-
Graphics
- 2008 Linux Graphics Survey Results
Last week our annual Linux Graphics Survey ended. There were over 14,000 submissions this year to the eleven questions we asked pertaining to X.Org, Linux desktop usage, and graphics hardware. In this article are all of the results from this year’s survey.
- They say when you start something….
I’ve implemented a sort of Mac OS X ’sheets’ animation in the simple-animations plugin. It is designed to work with dialog boxes so that they appear to ‘roll out’ of the top of the window. The animation is there, I just haven’t got parent window detection to work with dialogs yet and haven’t put window placement code in. Once that is done it should look (somewhat) realistic without violating the hidden patent I probably don’t know about.
-
Video
- 2008 Linux Graphics Survey Results
-
Gifts
-
Desktop Environments
- Sugar Labs gets sweet with the GNOME Foundation
- GNOME 2.25.3 released !
Wow we are so late this time — probably some Debian blood is still flowing through my veins — but this is really worth it, 2.25.3 is here and there is goodness overflowing.
- KWin visual effects get way better in KDE 4.2
-
Distributions
- Best Linux releases of 2008
- AntiX 8.0 Test1
- Revised Slackware keeps it simple
- sidux 2008-04
-
Ubuntu
- Talking Switched from Windows to Ubuntu – wish I had done this before
This is my first post on these forums. It’s going to be a happy one. For happy is the state I ended up in tonight. Because, you see, I made “The Switch”. Bye Windows, hello Linux-world. Ubuntu. I am amazed. I am astonished. I feel like a total idiot for not having done this transfer before.
- Ubuntu Enrolls At Cornell College
No doubt, Ubuntu will spill over from college IT departments out to student populations as more and more Netbooks (preloaded with Ubuntu) arrive on college campuses.
- Ubuntu Review: One Year In
- Thoughts on Ubuntu 8.10.
- Linux Mint Raises the User-Friendliness Bar
- Talking Switched from Windows to Ubuntu – wish I had done this before
-
Devices
- Palm Gets $100 Million Cash Infusion
Palm will reportedly introduce new smartphones and a new Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, code-named Nova, next year.
- N810-ish, Linux-based MID pops up overseas, brings hope to at least one reviewer
-
Android
- Multiple Android Phones Expected In 2009
- Android G2 Has Rumor Mill Buzzing
- Samsung Might Release Android-Powered Phone in Q2 2009
- Garmin Confirms Android Handset
Garmin’s first cellphone, the nüvifone, has yet to see the light of the day. But the personal navigation devices maker is already working on its second handset–a Google Android mobile operating system-powered device.
- Garmin Readying Android Phone For 2009?
- Palm Gets $100 Million Cash Infusion
F/OSS
- Open source: getting started
- FLOSS Manuals sprints to build quality free documentation
- 10 Firefox Extensions For Better Tab Management
- Online Journalism Scandinavia: Mecom’s Danish arm will cut costs with open-source CMS
- Perl 5 completes move to Git
- Talking with Pactolus’ Ken Osowski
- OpenVAS Charts Its Own Forked Course
-
Server-based
-
Graphics
- An Easy Way to Introduce Inkscape Drawing Program to Youth and Adults
- 10 more ways to spend less, give more!
OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE: Tux Paint is a computer drawing program that is great for kids. You can give open-source software for adults, such as Linux operating system or Gimp, an image-manipulation program.
Leftovers
- IBM reneges on Solaris GPFS promise
- In Praise of Whingeing
- Governments Increasingly Turn to OpenDocument Format as ODF Alliance Marks Unprecedented 2008
- Some ISPs Push Back On RIAA Plan
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Markos Moulitsas, creator of the Daily Kos on-line political magazine 04 (2005)
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
ᶃ Gemini Space
This post is also available in 
Content is available under CC-BY-SA